Imported diphyllobothriasis in Switzerland: molecular evidence of Diphyllobothrium dendriticum (Nitsch, 1824) - PubMed (original) (raw)

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doi: 10.1007/s00436-007-0745-y. Epub 2007 Sep 6.

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Imported diphyllobothriasis in Switzerland: molecular evidence of Diphyllobothrium dendriticum (Nitsch, 1824)

Barbara Wicht et al. Parasitol Res. 2008 Jan.

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We report for the first time in Switzerland a clinical case because of Diphyllobothrium dendriticum, identified by molecular methods. We discuss the potential for this imported species to infect local intermediate hosts and thus to achieve autochthonous cyclic transmission.

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